circumstances conspire...

I had big plans for last weekend, it was going to be a bit of a poker orgy. I had an invite to the quarterly Queen-level $5k freeroll which I was going to have a go at, and I also had plans to put those unused party points, which let's face it, at my stakes I'm never going accumulate to a high enough level to convert to cash before they expire, into buying into a couple of sit'n'gos and seeing how I got on.
Friday night I had a reasonably short session, again getting a fairly unexciting run of junk cards, but managing to build back up from $1.20 to almost break-even and then turning a set with pocket 9s against a muppet foolishly slowplaying his AK to cashout with a $2.50ish profit. So, pretty happy with how I played and it's good warm-up for the weekend's binge...

...except then I had to work Saturday afternoon, which dragged on to working Saturday through to 3am, and then to also working Sunday until 8pm...


So, a bit of a let-down really. I'm mostly annoyed for missing the freeroll, because it's only once every three months. Probably longer than that until I can take part - with restrictions on my play time at the moment I think I'll miss minimum points expenditure and be dropping back down to Jack and so miss next quarter.

Probably no time for any poker this weekend, but on the plus side we should hopefully, in the next day or two, be getting internet properly installed in the place I'm currently living. That should mean more sessions and more frequent posts. So, to my reader (I think I'd been flattering myself to pluralise), watch this space...

Good progress, as befitting a Queen...

I've been fairly happy with my play at the moment, I've been reining myself in a lot more at playing marginal hands pre-flop and chasing draws post-flop. I won't say I've played perfectly, I've still had some moments of mental abstraction which have cost me, but in general I've been a lot more solid.
Last week I came close to ending around $12 up, but I made the mistake of playing on Sunday when I only had a limited amount of time and misjudged a big hand, running top two pair into a low set, then with no time to rebuild from that loss before I had to log off. So that left me closer to $6 in profit for the week, which isn't quite as nice. This week is also lookng good so far, I'm ending tonight $5-ish in profit.

In other news, turns out I'm a Queen! Was mucking around in the account part of Party Poker and noticed I'm in tier 2 of their Party Point scheme, which came as a bit of a surprise given the low level I play at. Still, it means I now get double Party Points (so a double pittance each session!) There's also a quarterly $5k freeroll which might be fun to take a crack at.

Here's hoping I keep up the current upward progress.


Weekly Total: $4.57
Current Bankroll: $60.45


UPDATE:
Ran into some horrible hands on Sunday which undid all my profits. Ah well...


Weekly Total: -$0.50
Current Bankroll: $55.28